FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Cooper Reading shot his way to success at the national shooting champions at the end of March.
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The young shooter from Wallaloo travelled to Wagga Wagga for the 2017 Australian Clay Target Association championships and finished runner-up in the B Grade single barrel championships.
Across four grades there was 550 shooters who took part in the single barrel event on March 31. Mother Belinda said Cooper took it all in his stride even though it was his first time competing at the national level.
“We are all obviously very proud of him,” she said. “He does not seem to be too fussed by it on the outside but he has done well.”
Cooper has only been shooting competitively for a couple of years. Belinda said it was initially something he started doing with his father on the family farm.
“They would go out shooting together a fair bit,” she said.
“But then he went on a school shoot at our local club and that got him started.”
Cooper then started honing his skills at the Calawadda-Stawell Clay Target Club.
Last year he returned home from the Victorian Championships after winning C Grade and has since been shooting at a B Grade level.